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Acts 18:19
And he came to Ephesus and left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
And he came to Ephesus and left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
ACTS 18:19 kath,nthsan {B} The Textus Receptus, following î74 P Y most minuscules _al,_ alters kath,nthsan to the singular in conformity with the other verbs in the context....
Verse Acts 18:19. _HE CAME TO EPHESUS_] Where it appears he spent but one Sabbath. It is supposed that Paul left Aquila and Priscilla at this place, and that he went on alone to Jerusalem; for it is...
AND HE CAME TO EPHESUS - See the notes on Revelation 2:1. This was a celebrated city in Ionia, in Asia Minor, about 40 miles south of Smyrna. It was chiefly famous for the Temple of Diana, usually rec...
CHAPTER 18 _ 1. In Corinth with Aquila and Priscilla. His Testimony and Separation from the Jews (Acts 18:1)._ 2. Encouragement from the Lord in a vision (Acts 18:9). 3. Paul and Gallio (Acts 18:12...
JOURNEY TO SYRIA. No special object, is stated; the facts are placed before us abruptly, and some are hard to understand. An apostle is by his office a traveller who does not give himself to any one c...
PREACHING IN CORINTH (Acts 18:1-11) Its very position made Corinth (G2882) a key city of Greece. Greece is almost cut in two by the sea. On one side is the Saronic Gulf with its port of Cenchrea and...
After Paul had remained there many days longer he took leave of the brethren and sailed away to Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila went with him. At Cenchrea he had his head shorn for he had a vow. They...
HE. The texts read "they". CAME. Greek. _katantao._ See note on Acts 16:1....
ΚΑΤΉΝΤΗΣΑΝ with אABE. _Vulg_. supports the singular. 19. ΚΑΤΉΝΤΗΣΑΝ ΔῈ ΕἸΣ ἝΦΕΣΟΝ. _and they came to Ephesus_. Ephesus was the famous city, the capital of Ionia, and afterwards the scene of a large po...
PAUL LEAVES CORINTH TO GO INTO SYRIA, HALTING A SHORT TIME AT CENCHREÆ, AND SOMEWHAT LONGER AT EPHESUS. HE LANDS AT CÆSAREA, GOES UP TO JERUSALEM, AND FROM THENCE TO ANTIOCH, AND AFTER A TIME DEPARTS...
_PAUL WATERED WHAT HE HAD PLANTED ACTS 18:18-23:_ At Cenchrea Paul shaved his head because of a vow he had made. One would be hard pressed to prove that this vow was one peculiar to the Law, which it...
ΚΑΤΉΝΤΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΝΤΆΩ (G2658) прибывать, ΕΙΣ "ΕΦΕΣΟΝ (G1519; G2181) в Ефес. О великом городе Ефес _см._ Paul Trebilco, "Asia" BAFCS, 2:302-59; AAT, 248-63; Merrill M.Parvis, "Ephesu...
AND HE CAME TO EPHESUS,— For the short time that the apostle now continued at Ephesus, which seems to have been but one sabbath-day, he went into the synagogue, and discoursed with the Jews, and with...
AT CENCHREA. Acts 18:18. Acts 18:18 And Paul, having tarried after this yet many days, took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila: having shorn hi...
19-22. Embarking at Cenchrea, which was the eastern port of Corinth, on a voyage for Syria, the frequent commercial intercourse between Corinth and Ephesus very naturally caused the vessel to touch at...
And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. AND HE CAME TO EPHESUS - the celebrated capital of Ionia, and at this time of Pro...
3 While in Thessalonica he had been supported partly by gifts from Philippi, but now he engaged in tentmaking as a means of. livelihood. During his early days in Corinth his heart was continually occu...
VISIT TO JERUSALEM. Paul probably sailed in a ship specially chartered to convey Jews to Palestine to keep the Passover....
EPHESUS] The prohibition to preach the word in Asia (Acts 16:6) had now apparently been removed. Aquila and Priscilla were left in Ephesus to prepare the way for the great missionary effort that he de...
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONCLUDED) 1-18. St. Paul at Corinth. Corinth was the capital of the Roman province of Achaia. The ancient town had been entirely destroyed in 146 b.c. by the Roman general...
ST PAUL'S SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY, 49, 50 A.D. (ACTS 15:36 TO ACTS 18:22) Having secured the formal recognition by the Twelve of Gentile Christianity, St. Paul was free to resume his missionary labo...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 18 PAUL GOES TO CORINTH, 18:1-4 V1 After this, Paul left Athens and he went to Corinth. V2 In Corinth, he met a *Jew called Aquila. Aquila had...
HE CAME TO EPHESUS, AND LEFT THEM THERE. — The better MSS. give, “They came to Ephesus.” What follows seems to imply that he no longer continued to work with them, as at Corinth, but leaving them to e...
CHAPTER 14 THE EPHESIAN CHURCH AND ITS FOUNDATION. Acts 18:19; Acts 18:24; Acts 19:1 EPHESUS has been from very ancient times a distinguished city. It was famous in the religious history of Asia Min...
κατήντησε, see critical note. εἰς Ἔφεσον : a voyage of two or three days with unfavourable wind. Cicero mentions two occasions when the voyage from Ephesus to Athens took two weeks, _Ad Attic._, vi.,...
NEW HELPERS IN THE GOSPEL Acts 18:18 In unimportant matters Paul was still amenable to Hebrew customs and rites, Acts 18:18. Probably he desired to conciliate his Judaizing opponents so far as he cou...
Leaving Athens, the center of the intellectual life of Greece, Paul came to Corinth, its commercial center. There he joined Aquila, and gave himself to the work of tent-making, while reasoning on the...
Paul's Return to Antioch Paul spent a short time preaching in the synagogue in Ephesus. He promised to return if it was God's will, left Priscilla and Aquila and sailed on to Caesarea. The apostle ma...
The Jewish synagogue was outside the city, as frequently....
And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, (13) Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
At Thessalonica Paul twice received succour from Philippi; at Corinth, where money and commerce abounded, he does not take it, but quietly works with two of his countrymen of the same trade as himself...
AND HE CAME TO EPHESUS,.... The metropolis of Asia; according to Pliny c, it had been called by many names; at the time of the Trojan war, Alopes, then Ortygia and Morges, also Smyrna Trachea, Samorni...
And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. Ver. 19. _And reasoned with the Jews_] Whose salvation he dearly desired, Romans 9:...
_And he came to Ephesus_ The ship in which they sailed probably having occasion to touch there. _And he entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews_ Upon whom his discourse made such an imp...
EPHESUS; a city of Ionia in Asia Minor, about forty miles south of Smyrna....
Paul leaves Athens and is directed to Corinth, a city as loose and licentious as Athens, but where the gospel nevertheless found a response. There he found a Jew named Aquila who had come with his wif...
AND HE CAME TO EPHESUS, AND LEFT THEM THERE; BUT HE HIMSELF ENTERED THE SYNAGOGUE AND REASONED WITH THE JEWS. 1. One of the most impressive archaeological sites is Ephesus because it remains as it wa...
18-23 While Paul found he laboured not in vain, he continued labouring. Our times are in God's hand; we purpose, but he disposes; therefore we must make all promises with submission to the will of Go...
EPHESUS; the metropolis of the Lesser Asia, where afterwards that famous church was, unto which St. Paul wrote an Epistle, as also St. John wrote another, REVELATION 2:1. LEFT THEM THERE; that is, Aqu...
19-22. Embarking at Cenchrea, which was the eastern port of Corinth, on a voyage for Syria, the frequent commercial intercourse between Corinth and Ephesus very naturally caused the vessel to touch at...
Acts 18:19 And G1161 came G2658 (G5656) to G1519 Ephesus G2181 and G2548 left G2641 (G5627) there...
‘And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there, but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.' On arrival in Ephesus Paul clearly said his ‘goodbyes' to Priscilla and Aquil...
PAUL RETURNS TO ANTIOCH VIA EPHESUS AND JERUSALEM (18:18-22). The ministry at Corinth continued for some time after which Paul decided that it was time to return back to the church at Syrian Antioch...
_St. Paul returns to Antioch by way of Ephesus and Jerusalem, and there closes his Second Missionary JourneyHe then starts on his Third Missionary Enterprise,_ 19-23. Acts 18:19. AND HE CAME TO EPHESU...
CAME (κατηντησαν). Came down, as usual in speaking of coming to land (Acts 16:1).TO EPHESUS (εις Εφεσον). This great city on the Cayster, the capital of the Province of Asia, the home of the worsh...
Paul had been preaching the gospel at Athens to the most famous men of that city gathered at Areopagus. Acts 18:1. _After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth:_ Another most i...
CONTENTS: Paul at Corinth. The careless Gallio. Paul takes a Jewish vow. Apollos at Ephesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Paul, Aquila, Priscilla, Claudius, Silas, Timothy, Justus, Crispus, Gallio, Sosthenes,...
Acts 18:2. _Claudius had commanded all jews to depart from Rome._ Suetonius says that this was on account of Chrestus, [Christ] who continually excited disturbances. This edict was issued in the ninth...
PAUL STAYED ON IN CORINTH. This may be included in the year and a half (Acts 18:11). The point is that he was not forced to leave the area by what the Jews were doing. THEN LEFT THEM AND SAILED OFF. H...
_And Paul after this tarried there a good while._ PREPARING FOR LABOUR 1. Paul has conquered his position in Corinth. He seemed to have acquired a right to remain there. And after tarrying “a good wh...
_And he went through Syria and Cilicia confirming the churches._ PAUL AS A MODEL FOR ALL GOSPEL MINISTERS He recognises the importance of-- I. Establishing new converts in the faith. In this visit...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:18. HAVING SHORN HIS HEAD AT CENCHREA, FOR HE HAD A VOW.—The uncertainties connected with this passage are three: 1. Whether Aquila (Kuinoel, Meyer, Wendt, Zöckler) or Paul...
EXPOSITION ACTS 18:1 _He _for _Paul, _A.V. and T.R. AFTER THESE THINGS, etc. No hint is given by St. Luke as to the length of Paul's sojourn at Athens. But as the double journey of the Beroeans, who...
Let's turn now to the eighteenth chapter of Acts as we continue our study through the Bible. At the end of the study last week, the end of chapter seventeen, we found Paul speaking to the Epicurean an...
1 Corinthians 16:8; 1 Timothy 1:3; 2 Timothy 1:18; 2 Timothy 4:12;...